Have You Ever Lost Someone To Gun Violence?

Originally Posted by AdmiralAluminum

Nope still not offended. I prefer apples you prefer oranges.

I haven't been avoiding the question, just haven't gotten to it yet. I've already stated that many things can be used as weapons. Almost anything I suppose. My first point about guns is they are a ranged weapon. It is difficult to kill someone with a knife or bat unless you are close to them. You can kill with a gun from a distance. Someone using a bat or knife is far less likely to cause collateral damage. Everyone of you with a gun has always hit the target? If you want to perform violence on someone, I think you should be close enough to see their face.

If you are being held at gunpoint, running is not much of an option, where a knife or bat or whatever else at least allows that option. The range of the weapon puts too much power in one person's hand. As Olddude pointed out, all the guns won't just disappear, but that doesn't mean everyone should have one, in my opinion. Fertilizer was mentioned, like other substances that can be made into explosives. Is there no restrictions on these materials? Can everyone just go and get some in case they get bombed, so they can bomb back? Or have restrictions been implemented to prevent this? What's the difference between shooting someone from fifty feet or blowing them up from 5 miles away?

I have had two different times in the last 5 years where I was carrying that saved my life and more importantly my wife's. If you have never been confronted with "real" violence and the evil that comes with it , than you really don't have anything to base your opinion on.



The last thing I would want to do is take a life ,no matter who the individual is.
In those two times stated above I didn't even need to draw my weapon. I just unzipped my jacket and it was over.

Most thugs are like bullies ,they prey on the weak.
Like I said before its better to be prepared. I don't strap on my weapon in hopes that I get to use it. I pray that I never will need to discharge my firearm while it pointed at another person. Americans get a bad rep about guns.